Mr Fenty on Look North

Quoted from carp catcher

He says the club should build on the other side of railway near BP

Interesting.

Who owns it?

Isn't that mostly beach area?!

Will still be traffic problems but when we only get 3000 most week that's hardly an issue.

One of the key problems here is the phrase "on the other side of the railway". Changing (or working around) major infrastructure such as railway lines would cost an absolute flipping arm and a leg. No to mention the appalling congestion problems you'd have attempting to get in and out with the road layout around there. A non-starter, I'd have thought.

There is no way the ground would be built on the other side of the single line (railway) due to infrastructure problems as Maringer says above.

Really lads this his not about a certain councillor, its about GTFC, a private enterprise, with no money to build or acquire a new stadium, needing a hand out. The said " hand out" being council land or agricultural land worth about 10 thousand quid an acre being turned in to prime building land worth between, 700 thousand to a million quid an acre..This land, sold on to develop a community stadium.  Town get their bit, the land owners make a killing, the builders make their bit. The problem is at what price to GTFC buy or acquire the land ?  UTM

Quoted from carp catcher

He says the club should build on the other side of railway near BP

If that is true then the guy should lose any credibility he has, nowhere near enough space, even worse access than we currently have (but i suppose he would suggest that a GTFC platform or siding could be built for use on matchdays and we all catch the train to the game) and just demonstrates that he is a NIMBY as there are even more homes effected in that area than there would be by the Peaks Parkway proposal.

Quoted from moosey_club

If that is true then the guy should lose any credibility he has, nowhere near enough space, even worse access than we currently have (but i suppose he would suggest that a GTFC platform or siding could be built for use on matchdays and we all catch the train to the game) and just demonstrates that he is a NIMBY as there are even more homes effected in that area than there would be by the Peaks Parkway proposal.

When this location was originally suggested (many years ago) it was thought that it would be part of a development along the foreshore including a new road to relieve traffic from Riby Square to Cleethorpes and a railway terminus to replace Cleethorpes.

Obviously it was financial pie in the sky but the biggest nail in the coffin was the council's ploy of developing the south end of the resort at the expense of the north end. The housing estates at Middlethorpe and the retail park, bowling alley, cinema, new hotel ...... were all given planning permission on greenfield sites very easily indeed. So easily that someone surely should have asked questions, especially about how they are accessed or more correctly not accessed by traffic.

Any development at the north end would of course mean much harder and more expensive planning and work, not least because some of it is owned by the railway.

So the issue of Town's ground was shelved long ago and the land over the railway has been a non-starter for some years apart from an abortive enquiry about making part of it into a car park for BP. You would expect Mr DeFreitas to know all this.

Quoted from carp catcher

I live in his borough and he knocked on my door yesterday collectin names for his petition.i gave him it both barrels about how the council should support the clubs need to move.
His gripe seems to be with JF.not happy about the way he goes about business his main fighting point is the building of the houses.
He says the club should build on the other side of railway near BP

Well done for letting him know what you thought and now the revelation that this is indeed personal he should be removed from anything to do with this at council meetings.

Quoted from carp catcher

I live in his borough and he knocked on my door yesterday collectin names for his petition.i gave him it both barrels about how the council should support the clubs need to move.
His gripe seems to be with JF.not happy about the way he goes about business his main fighting point is the building of the houses.
He says the club should build on the other side of railway near BP

The bloke is completely clueless